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Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

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David Lee Roth
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 10
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He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
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I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success
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A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.
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I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.
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The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.
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Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing
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Nobody's going to get a hot dog at my concert!
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Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
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Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.
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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.
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Give me a glazed doughnut, and a bottle of anything... to go!
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I live and breathe and do four times as much four times as fast as anyone else.
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Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
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I can teach you to jump up in five seconds-it takes years to learn how to land properly.
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You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.
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They make this drink in Brazil Called cachaca. It's sugar can alcholho. Costs 35 cents a quart. One quart of that stuff and you see God. Two quarts and you graow a pair of tight pants and an electric guitar.
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A lot of rock bands are truly a legend in their own minds.
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If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?
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If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.
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